tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post1518851324527922516..comments2024-03-27T04:12:56.499-07:00Comments on Railfan44's Railroad Photo Essays: the stories behind the pictures: A Morning at Englewood Union Station, 1965Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-87949521262760768322020-01-07T10:24:16.646-08:002020-01-07T10:24:16.646-08:00Wish I did.Wish I did.Story Behind the Pictureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-49947983564341033952020-01-07T09:17:51.386-08:002020-01-07T09:17:51.386-08:00Fantastic collection of photos from Englewood Unio...Fantastic collection of photos from Englewood Union Station; may it rest in peace. Do you have any photos of the interior of the station?Richard Stephenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04950262954702216302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-20520021403808860482019-03-06T09:42:11.611-08:002019-03-06T09:42:11.611-08:00You have photos or history of the station that use...You have photos or history of the station that used to stand at 63rd and Stewart?...I believe it was ran by the Illinois central railway. The old platform canopies are still there but they are crumbling. The building was torn down sometime in late 1970-Early 1980....ALSO...Same question about the old CTA Kenwood line<br />..Thanks!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017233178721254698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-49996716412893673752018-03-22T05:02:17.100-07:002018-03-22T05:02:17.100-07:00Thank you for your generosity in sharing these vin...Thank you for your generosity in sharing these vintage shots. My father was a college student in Chicago from 1953 -56 and I sentimentally enjoy the texture of life he may have experienced around the time of that era and place. Although your Englewood visit was a decade later, you captured it well for me. Your outstanding knowledge of your camera and film are apparent and I appreciate the great sense of wonder you certainly had as well as your sense of adventure. I admire that. I am also grateful for your historical review by outlining what railroads now occupy those right of ways. I even smiled, knowing now, that Goes Commercial Lithography lives on (albeit in Wisconsin). I toast you, sir, and the great memory of the Burlington. High ball, my friend!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03971411815717924115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-70637851699678323482018-03-22T04:59:56.827-07:002018-03-22T04:59:56.827-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03971411815717924115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-37959483107690794552017-06-22T20:43:11.098-07:002017-06-22T20:43:11.098-07:00Great pics! I can't believe I've not run a...Great pics! I can't believe I've not run across your blog before. Thanks for sharing these pieces of time that we sadly can no longer experience. Iowa Friesianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04736009070667533343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-44627703546003804062016-04-14T11:28:56.693-07:002016-04-14T11:28:56.693-07:00I checked out your flickr albums. Some great phot...I checked out your flickr albums. Some great photos. Some deserve scanning with a good scanner and some photo editing then publishing on a couple of railfan sites and Facebook's Forgotten Chicago group.Story Behind the Pictureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-51116103080978261372016-04-14T11:03:56.743-07:002016-04-14T11:03:56.743-07:00I lived at 227 W. 61st Place ubtil 1957 as a kid a...I lived at 227 W. 61st Place ubtil 1957 as a kid and spent many hours at Englewood with my box camera. My main interest was steam. Being a kid living on an allowance, I could not take as many pictures as I wanted to. The last steam at Englewood was the NKP with Hudsons and Mikes. Your pictures are the first time I saw the Rock Island "B" unit running as a single unit. My pictures are on Flickr, Robert LeffingwellAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03516919679894077882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-13001592123618896432016-01-26T10:01:38.178-08:002016-01-26T10:01:38.178-08:00What a wonderful comment. You make me glad I did ...What a wonderful comment. You make me glad I did this blog.Story Behind the Pictureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-57734368658121084222016-01-26T09:46:44.588-08:002016-01-26T09:46:44.588-08:00I have fond memories of Englewood. We lived near 4...I have fond memories of Englewood. We lived near 47th and Damen and my uncle worked MOW on the NYC. Every summer between the ages of 7 and 12, my uncle would take me on summer trip on the NYC. I have been to every station on the NYC between Chicago and New York with my uncle. Some times we would leave from LaSalle downtown but I loved going to Englewood (it was closer to 47th street then going downtown).<br />I never took pictures, they are still all in my head. Standing on the platform, watching Nickel Plate steamers heading toward downtown. The one I remember most was a trip to New York early winter 1952. I watched that NYC Hudson pull into Englewood with our east bound to NYC. Sitting in the seat as a porter came by with a basket of treats. My uncle would always buy me something. He got the conductor to allow the seat in front of us to be reversed so I had a place to lay my head. My uncle knew ever White Castles within walking distance of major stations (Toledo, Cleveland, etc...) on the NYC eastbound. Gosh your article put tears in my eyes as I remembered those wonderful week end mornings standing on the platform with my uncle at Englewood, waiting on those beautiful trains pulled by both steam and diesel. I was lucky enough to see the transition but still luckier to still see the big steam the NYC and PRR had to offer at Englewood... ChicagoRailFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04834442853501678856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-47178839418543496122016-01-03T19:42:30.785-08:002016-01-03T19:42:30.785-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.mattmcchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04595318983537372216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-92182717703086756442016-01-03T19:40:50.149-08:002016-01-03T19:40:50.149-08:00Still a great capture. Very enjoyable and so well ...Still a great capture. Very enjoyable and so well digitized. <br />It would be a death wish to hang out at 63rd and State for the last 40 years.mattmcchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04595318983537372216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-2625889752984336712015-06-02T18:33:07.732-07:002015-06-02T18:33:07.732-07:00Fantastic pictures. I have some I took as a kid on...Fantastic pictures. I have some I took as a kid on flikr. I lived just two blocks away and spent many hours at Englewood with my box camera using my allowance money for film. I was able to catch the final year of steam on the NYC and Nickel Plate. It was a sad day when a new GP9 was on the NKP local train, ending steam at Englewood forever. My family moved away in 1957 when the expressway took our house. Robert LeffingwellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-86390578390946324292015-06-02T11:51:35.683-07:002015-06-02T11:51:35.683-07:00By 1965, Boston and Maine had traded in its BL-2s ...By 1965, Boston and Maine had traded in its BL-2s that also worked suburban trains. But nobody other than the Rock would put an Alco road-switcher, the remnants of a <i>Rocket</i> articulated train, and a string of quarter-point-door suburban coaches on a commuter train! Stephen Karlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02945914425504935287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-5728081207566765412014-05-22T08:35:15.552-07:002014-05-22T08:35:15.552-07:00My grandfather worked for the Pennsy and my family...My grandfather worked for the Pennsy and my family drove into and out of this station many times. As a child, I was awed by the entrance and how automobiles had to curve around, going up into the narrow, bricked space to reach the station.Dusty skjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484298042868879999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-3697109626915039082013-10-07T07:25:58.128-07:002013-10-07T07:25:58.128-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Send Flower Pakistanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201527870889773578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-89543951816706692222013-06-06T06:07:25.018-07:002013-06-06T06:07:25.018-07:00Thanks for sharing.
My NYC ride to and from Chi...Thanks for sharing. <br /><br />My NYC ride to and from Chicago was the old "New "England States" out of Boston. I still remember looking out the bedroom window at about age 8 at one train racing us out of Englwood. Probably a PRR -- but I did not know that back then. <br /><br />That was another era in time -- probably never to be repeated except for some short haul HSR and the continuing commuters. <br /><br />Unless you like to watch intermodals in and out of 63rd Street area!<br /><br /><br />This is Jim Blaze (CR -1975 to 1996)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01366597895065401680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-31124134194635295782013-06-03T21:26:30.729-07:002013-06-03T21:26:30.729-07:00It's comments like this that make people ask t...It's comments like this that make people ask themselves, "Why did I bother?" <br /><br />Ignore him Marty!tommyboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11818715333981958002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-30671474358043621792013-06-03T21:24:24.887-07:002013-06-03T21:24:24.887-07:00Beautiful shots of the way it once was. Thanks!Beautiful shots of the way it once was. Thanks!tommyboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11818715333981958002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-59766068875941284092013-06-02T12:15:16.471-07:002013-06-02T12:15:16.471-07:00As on of your younger brothers I used to watch you...As on of your younger brothers I used to watch you leave the house early in the morning with your camera to go 'train chasing'. Until reading this, I never had a sense of what you were doing. Now I get it. Awesome post!Residence Hill Bed & Breakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05835532662351759661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-18199334036715732522013-06-02T06:04:48.813-07:002013-06-02T06:04:48.813-07:00>>A near perfect ABA set of E-units lead the...>>A near perfect ABA set of E-units lead the 20th Century Limited into Englewood...<br />With two out of three in the "Simplified" scheme, I would call this near IMperfect! Kent Loudonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16418211586421493233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-33611364995261948902013-05-31T06:26:03.206-07:002013-05-31T06:26:03.206-07:00Watching North by Northwest yesterday (the century...Watching North by Northwest yesterday (the century and chicago appeared in thaht film)and now reading this I almost cryed . It's a shame that Chicago has lost all the passenger stations (I mean the old wonderful buildings) and most of the trackage. I can imagine perfectly the Broadway and Century Stopping there. I went to Google Maps and I felt very sad. Chicago has already lost its glamour and it doesn't mind for people. Simply, I can't understand why people is passive and let demolished all that historic places. In google Maps i also saw that not only the station has benn demolished.(sorry for my english i'm not from USA) Practically the whole place has been turned down (factories, houses, warehouses, bridges). It's really very very very sad how Chicago has lost this wonderful scene. In Union Station not only the concourse building was demolished. The PRR Freight Terminal (the largest freight terminal in the world) was also demolished and replaced by a electrical transformers. I can't explain with words my feelings at the moment i am writing this. But imagine that one time ago a PRR T1 or a Dreyfuss Hudson stopped there and now we can't wathc that scenes It's very frustrating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-35993047918713954242013-02-23T12:09:09.238-08:002013-02-23T12:09:09.238-08:00Wow! What an amazing site! I have always been int...Wow! What an amazing site! I have always been interested in Englewood as a passenger stop. Thank you for capturing a moment lost in time. Great work!rkandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05316437011776099370noreply@blogger.com